Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977

by Mirelsie Velazquez

Book Overview

Winner of the Critics' Choice Book awards of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA-CCBA)

The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Vel zquez...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252086287
• ISBN13: 9780252086281
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"